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Published: 12/10/2005

Extent: 152 pages

Illustrations: 65 full colour plates

 

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Summary:
The relationship between art, medicine and surgery has always been a fertile source of discussion and debate. This book, like its predecessor Medicine and Art, evolved from a series of articles written by Alan EH Emery on art and medicine in Clinical Medicine, the journal of the Royal College of Physicians of London. In this volume, however, the authors have concentrated their attention on treatment not only in medicine but also in surgery.

Each artwork, reproduced in full colour, is accompanied by an essay tracing the history of medicine and surgery from Ancient Egypt to the present day. The essays describe the relevance of each work of art and also details the artists themselves making this book an invaluable resource and a unique treasure trove of information for all who share the authors’ love of art, history, medicine and surgery.

This beautifully produced book will be a source of amusement and interest for everyone with a passion for art, or a fascination for the development of medicine over the centuries. Within the book are 65 illustrations from many well-known, and less well-known artists and illustrators including works by Susan Macfarlane • Toulouse-Lautrec • Otto Dix • Hans Holbein the Younger • Leonardo da Vinci • Francesco Goya • Hieronymus Bosch, and many more.

The eagerly awaited follow-up to Medicine and Art by the same authors. Here is a second installment of intriguing pieces of carefully selected art with meticulously researched commentary – another superbly produced volume to treasure.

An ideal gift for a friend or colleague, or simply a delightful addition to your own personal library, Surgical and Medical Treatment in Art will be a treasured and much referenced friend in years to come.

Achieved Highly Commended in New Non-Clinical Book category of RSM & Society of Authors Book Awards

Winner of Best Illustrated Medical Book and achieved Highly Commended in Basis of Medicine Category, British Medical Association Book Awards

BMA Judges Comments:
This book has high quality illustrations and production with details on the painting and artist in appropriate context. Helpful resources for further study are given at the back of the book. It's a useful reference point for anyone interested in art and medicine - a beautiful series of essays on art history, which is used to illustrate artists' views of health, healing and treatment, especially using surgery.

• 65 illustrations from many well-known, and less well-known artists and illustrators including works by Susan Macfarlane • Toulouse-Lautrec • Otto Dix • Hans Holbein the Younger • Leonardo da Vinci • Francesco Goya • Hieronymus Bosch, and many more

• This beautifully produced book will be a source of amusement and interest for everyone with a passion for art, or a fascination for the development of medicine over the centuries.

• An invaluable resource and unique treasure trove of artworks for all who share the authors’ love of art, history, medicine and surgery

• Accompanies the bestselling titles also by the same authors: Medicine and Art and Mother and Child Care in Art

• Winner of Best Illustrated Medical Book and achieved Highly Commended in Basis of Medicine of the British Medical Association Book Awards

Table of Contents:
Foreword by Sir John Hanson
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Pectoral with a Heart Scarab in a Barque (c. 1275 BC), anonymous
2. Instruments in Ancient Eygpt (c. AD 150-200), anonymous
3. Manipulation of a Joint (c. 1800) by Zhou Pei Qun
4. The Warrior Guan Yu Plays Go While the Surgeon Hua T'o Operates on His Arm (1853) by Utagawa Kuniyoshi
5. Tombstone of the Athenian Physician Jason (2nd century BC), anonymous
6. Cautery (c. 1100), English mediaeval illuminated manuscript
7. Mandrake (Mandragora Root) (c. 1175), Mosan mediaeval illuminated manuscript
8. Surgery for Haemorrhoids, Nose Polps, and Corneal Incision (c. 1190-1200), Anglo-Norman illuminated manuscript
9. Consultants Between Doctor and Patient (14th century), mediaeval illuminated manuscript
10. Ship of Fools (c. 1490-1500) by Hieronymous Bosch
11. Saints Cosmas and Damian (1495) by Alonso de Sedano
12. Coat of Arms of the Royal Society of Medicine (1927) by Martin Travers
13. Battlefield Surgery (1465), illuminated manuscript for Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy
14. St Elizabeth Tending the Sick (c. 1597) by Adam Elsheimer
15. Seven Acts of Charity: Visiting the Sick (c. 1504) by the Master of Alkmaar
16. Anatomical Drawings: Myology of Trunk (c. 1509-1510) by Leonardo da Vinci
17. Portrait of Vesalius Teaching Anatomy, Aged 28 (1543), anonymous
18. The Anatomy Lecture of Dr Joan Deyman (1656) by Rembrandt van Rijn
19. The Fountain of Youth (1546) by Lucas Cranach the Elder
20. Short-Robed Surgeon Catheterises a Patient (c. 1510), anonymous, after Heinricj Fullmaurer and Albrecht Meyer
21. Three Miniatures (c. 1533-1541) by Lucas Horenbout and Hans Holbein the Younger
22. Henry VIII in 1540 Handing to Thomas Vicary the Act of Union Between the Barbers and Surgeons of London (1541) by Hans Holbein the Younger
23. Back Operation (early 17th century) by Adriaen Brouwer
24. The Doctor's Visit (1650-1665) by Jan Steen
25. The Extraction of the Stone (1650-1665) by Jan Steen
26. The Tooth Puller (early 17th century) by Theodor Rombouts
27. The Leech Woman or The Bloodletting (1660) by Quirijn van Brekelenkam
28. The Wounded Man (c. 1752) by Gaspare Traversi
29. El Medico (The Doctor) (1799) by Francisco Jose de Goya y Lucientes
30. The Cow Pock or The Wonderful Effects of the New Inoculation (1802) by James Gillray
31. The Mummy State (c. 1822-1841), anonymous
32. Robert Macaire Mesmerises an Old Lady in Front of an Audience (1829-1841) by Honare Daumier
33. The Phrenologist (1825) by 'E.H' (? Edward Hull)
34. Portrait of Sir Alexander Morison (1852) by Richard Dadd
35. The Death of Chatterton (1856) by Henry Wallis
36. Amputation (1793) by Thomas Rawlandson
37. First Successful Public Demonstration of Surgical Anaesthesia (1882) by Robery C. Hinckley
38. First Use of Ether Anaesthesia in Britain, 1846 (nd), anonymous
39. The Gross Clinic (1875) by Thomas Eakins
40. The Improvised Field Hospital (1865) by Jean-Frederic Bazille
41. Antiseptic Surgery (1882) by T.P. Collings
42. The Agnew Clinic (1889) by Thomas Eakins
43. Theodor Billroth Operating (1890) by Adalbert Franz Seligmann
44. Dr Pean Operatin (1891-1892) by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
45. The Bad Doctors (1892) by James Ensor
46. An Exam at the Faculty of Medicine in Paris (1901) by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
47. An Anxious Hour (1865) by Fanny (Mrs Alexander F.) Farmer
48. The Good Samaritan (1899) by William Small
49. The First Trial of X-ray Therapy for Cancer of the Breast (1907-1908) by Georges-Alexandre Chicotot
50. Ablutions (1932) by Sir Stanley Spencer
51. Travoys Arriving with Wounded at a Dressing Station at Smol, Macedonia, September 1916 (1919) by Sir Stanley Spencer
52. Dr Hans Kock, the Dermatologist and Urologist (1921) by Otto Dix
53. The Cardiologist, H. Vaquez and his Assistant (1926) by Edouard Vuillard
54. The Operation (1929) by Christian Schad
55. The Fever Van (1935) by L.S. Lowry
56. Dr Louis Viau (1936-1937) by Edouard Vuillard
57. 'I Waxes and I Wanes, Sir' (1944) by Mervyn Peake
58. The Microscope (1948) by Dame Barbara Hepworth
59. Portrait of Dr Fritz Perls (Founder of Gestalt Therapy) (1966) by Otto Dix
60. Tobacco Rose (1965) by Mel Ramos
61. Therapy or The Neuromuscular Clinic (1972) by Murray Tod
62. English Landscape with a Disruptive Gene (1972) by Steven Campbell
63. Boy After a Liver Transplant (1989) by Sir Roy Calne
64. Cytogenetics: Studying the Chromosomes (1997) by Susan Macfarlane
65. Three Oncologists (2002) by Ken Currie
66. Sleeping it Off (1996 by Susan Macfarlane
A Selection of Various Surgical, Dental and Medical Treatments Depicted in Works of Art

About the Author(s):

Alan EH Emery, Emeritus Professor of Human Genetics of the University of Edinburgh; Honorary Fellow of Green College, Oxford

Marcia LH Emery, Budleigh Salterton, Devon

Readership:
For everyone with a passion for art, history and medicine, particularly physicians

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